Hmmmmm. Sounds like an archives donation.
It's a Full Moon and Claudia wins.

Jodi Evans
Registrar
State Historical Society of Iowa


At 08:03 AM 4/14/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>Among my many areas of concern here, I am Curator of Computers.
>Yesterday, I received a telephone call from a man who asked what
>computers we have on display (none).  He asked when we would have
>computers on display (not in the next 5 years, at least).
>
>Says I:  "What, specifically, are you interested in?"
>
>Says he: "Well, I want to donate some stuff."
>
>Says I:  "What?"
>
>Says he:  "You know those cards that computers used to use?"
>
>Says I:  "Do you mean punchcards?"
>
>Says he:  "Yeah . . . You know the things that were punched out of
>them?"
>
>Says I:  "The holes?"
>
>Says he:  "Yes.  I would like to donate some--I've got millions of them.
> I think that someone could make a creative and meaningful display out
>of them."
>
>I allowed as how that probably was something that wouldn't really
>interest us (I used them in high school for confetti).  It was all I
>could do to get the phone hung up before I burst out laughing.
>
>I've been offered a lot of things, but never anything like this.
>
>Have a good day!
>
>Claudia
>Curator
>Museum Collections Department
>Minnesota Historical Society
>345 Kellogg Blvd. W.
>St. Paul, MN  55102-1906
>      Tel: 612-297-7442
>      FAX: 612-297-2967
>      e-mail:  [log in to unmask]
>